Well, it's been a very busy summer, and nothing got updated on here; then a very busy fall, and still nothing got updated... though I'm hoping fall isn't entirely over yet and there will still be some snow free days this month!
I've uploaded all the photos from the summer into one giant post (YAY blogger for now making that so easy to do!!) and hope to get the photos of our trip to the coast on here asap as well.
First thing that happens in our summer: Graye's birthday! He turned
6 years old this year (I've had a kid for 6 years??!!??) and was very happy about it. There was a lot of "6 years old do this" and "6 years old don't have to do that"... things which included jumping on the couch and cleaning rooms... I think you can probably figure out which thing went with which response. However, 6 year olds also get to go to Grade 1, which he was really excited about.
Birthday morning:
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| I don't know about yours, but our kids LOVE cards... especially ones that do things like have a Yoda that spins and plays Star Wars theme music! |
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| Gifts included a new dragon bike helmet (which Tegan is so fashionably modeling... backwards) and Beyblades, with arena. |
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| Cake! |
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| More cake! Look familiar?? He wanted the exact same cake as last year. This time I made it blue instead of green just to change things up a little. |
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| We made Marshmallow Shooters (as in guns not shots). Had I though about it, maybe I'd have had both types available so the adults could have some fun too! |
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| Shooting balloon heads... |
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| .... and tin cans! Note: if you make these yourself, don't get Dollarama marshmallows. They are smaller and don't work as well as the "name brand" variety. |
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| The girl party guests! ;) |
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| Family party! Hugs for Farfar after getting a new scooter from him and Nana. |
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| Superhero T-shirts need appropriately large chests to be properly displayed. Apparently. |
Who didn't do this when they were a kid!?
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| It's funny when kids are cranky and you make them look silly. Haha. |
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| Much cuter with smiles though! |
We went camping for a week and had a really great time! The kids LOVED swimming in the lake, especially when Dida was there to throw them into the water:
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| Found a quicksand mudpit. Hooray? |
Graye also discovered his love of fishing. Though he ended up being happier casting and reeling in without an actual hook on his line.
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| Doesn't everyone bring DJs on their camping trip? No? Just us? |
Graye caught his very first fish!!!
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| For some reason he didn't like actually trying to reel the fish in when he caught one (I think because they kept getting off the hook and he thought he was doing something wrong) but he would hold them and look at them until we made him put them back in the water! It definitely wasn't fear of the fish itself! |
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| Going on a "Dangerous Adventure" - Graye lifted that tree off the path like a real superhero. |
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| Camping Ryan. Yep. |
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| We pulled out the sparklers AFTER the kids went to bed. ;) |
Last day at the beach!
End of summer.... it really does go way too fast.
We still got in one last camping trip with the cousins though. And went canoeing during the most beautiful sunset ever. I had to limit the number of sunset photos I posted! (Yes, there are still more...)
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| On to fall... |
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